Campus sexual assault statistics

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/ 28-Jun-2017 08:40

Retrieved from the Association of American Universities website: https://edu/uploaded Files/AAU_Publications/AAU_Reports/Sexual_Assault_Campus_Survey/AAU_Campus_Climate_Survey_12_14_15Kilpatrick, D. Retrieved from: https://gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6308a1Cantor, D., Fisher, B., Chibnall, S., Townsend, R., Lee, H., Bruce, C., & Thomas, G. Report on the AAU campus climate survey on sexual assault and sexual misconduct. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 5, 747-756. A longitudinal examination of male college students’ perpetration of sexual assault. Social psychological processes that facilitate assault within the fraternity party subculture. National Crime Victimization Survey: Criminal victimization, 2008. (2016) Intimate Partner Victimization Among College Students With and Without Disabilities: Prevalence of and Relationship to Emotional Well-Being. Falling under the definition of sexual assault are sexual activities as forced sexual intercourse, forcible sodomy, child molestation, incest, fondling, and attempted rape.Sexual assault for higher education students occurs more frequently against women, but any gender can be victimized. While the rate of violent crime against higher education students aged 18–24 in the United States declined significantly from 1995 to 2002, the rates of rape and other sexual assault largely remained the same.

Reasons for not reporting: fear that it wasn’t “serious enough,” being “embarrassed, ashamed, or that it would be too emotionally difficult,” and thinking “nothing would be done about it.”College students who have survived sexual assault can have difficulties performing at their prior academic levels.Among students who have been sexually harassed, 38% avoid the person who harasses them on campus, 19% stay away from particular buildings in an attempt to avoid that person, and 6% consider transferring universities.Nearly one in five students has seen someone behaving in a sexually violent or harassing manner.Overall rates of reporting sexual assaults to campus officials and law enforcement or others are low, ranging from 5% to 28%, depending on the specific type of behavior.More than 50% of the victims (even those who experienced unwanted forced penetration) say they do not report the event because they do not consider it “serious enough.”Out of all grades in college, freshmen seem to have the highest rate of nonconsensual sexual contact via physical force of incapacitation (16.9%), with the rate going down as students get older (seniors have a rate of 11.1%).

Sexual assault doesn’t just include rape — it includes any form of unwanted sexual contact. To help provide a full picture of the state of sexual assault on campuses today, we took a look at the numbers that show this is something that affects Compared with private campuses, a higher percentage of campus law enforcement agencies on public campuses met regularly with special interest groups, such as advocacy groups (64% public compared to 43% private) and groups seeking to prevent domestic violence (69% compared to 48%) or sexual violence (76% compared to 58%).23% of female college students said they’ve experienced some form of nonconsensual contact that ranged from kissing to touching to rape, carried out by force or the threat of force.